Short review of Valley tune-removed it after 1500 miles
Long review of Valley tune-
1500 miles of mixed driving. anything from picking kids up at school to interstate driving and an 5 day off-road adventure.
Truck is a 17 Tacoma DCSB TRD OR, lifted, RTT, aluminum bed rack, Winch, Hybrid bumper, High clearance rear bumper with tire swing, 5.29 gears, blah blah blah, 34" tires 17" rims, Roof rack, snorkel, Sliders, Aluminum Skids (this trip) also have steel. Big AGM battery, URD Y pipe, TRD exhaust after that and chopped at the axle. Basically the truck has some weight to it.
My driving style is not aggressive. I don't have any need to beat anyone off the line at a stoplight. I sometimes like to floor it for fun but seldom do. I sometimes drive spirited but most of the time drive like a calm cool and collected person.
My tune before this was OV tunes v2.0 35's premium 5.29 without the thx
My impressions from the very start where not very good. I started with the standard tune for 5.29 gears and 34" tires. Throttle was so excessive that I immediately went to the light. Still the throttle seemed excessive. I contacted Valley tune and was advised to reset learned values. So I did. It didn't change. The problem with the throttle in both the standard and the light versions is that the first 1% of the throttle is 10% of it. It is real jumpy. Picking up kids from school and slowing moving forward with a light touch on the pedal was to much. Off-roading and trying to get just a little to get up and over something sent you up and over with too much. I spent 5 days in southern Utah on easy to difficult trails. Disliked the throttle the whole time. My other reason for removing the tune was it seems to shift too early when you have moderate throttle. Example getting onto the interstate. Getting on the pedal but not flooring it the truck would shift way to quick into 3rd or 4th and loose its quickness. reminded me of previous OVtunes maybe 1.04 or 1.03.
Next reason about me not liking it. This might be why some like it. The truck felt like it was in a half way ECT at all times. ECT was fine but not as good as it used to be with OVtunes latest tune.
I am unable to comment on gas milage because I dont keep track before. I know I can leave my house and get to Spanish Fork Utah on one tank of gas. The wind was really bad this time so I stopped near Hill AFB. About 80 miles short. Again wind was bad and drove 80mph the whole time. My truck does best at 75mph or less for MPGs.
The engine did sound different. Less noise but I have grown to like all the noises of this engine. I did like the exhaust sound when coming to a stop with or without ECT on.
The last thing. I havn't felt like I had a dead pedal for a long time. Stock toyota without tune has the dead pedal feel. This is where you wanna go slightly faster at 60+ mph give it gas and it does nothing, give it more nothing, give it more and all of a sudden you are dropping two gears and going faster than you wanted to go. This tune does that.
Here is the thing though this is my opinion and anyone who has followed OVtune from the beginning knows how many different opinions are out there on what the perfect tune should feel like. My truck is not the perfect setup. It carries extra weight with all the armor and stuff. Add in all the camping gear, water and food and its a heavy truck. So maybe the truck would work better without all that extra stuff. Maybe its the perfect tune if all you have is 5.29 gears and 34's? I dunno because thats not my truck. The pricepoint is at a place where you can try it and not cry if you don't like it. Best wishes to everyone and God Bless America!!!
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